Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
The Xin Zhao Rammus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rammus, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Xin Zhao sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rammus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Rammus helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xin Zhao is paired with Rammus, he sees a sizeable uptick in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Rammus provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played together with Rammus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rammus.
Moreover, when Xin Zhao plays with Rammus on the same team, he usually takes less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Rammus does a decent job of covering Xin Zhao during team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Xin Zhao that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Rammus is a great ally for Xin Zhao. By being on the same team as Xin Zhao, he raises their win rate by 3.9% to 54.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a very real bond between Xin Zhao and Rammus that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Rammus has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Rammus teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by grouping Xin Zhao and Rammus together, you may not be providing your side much magical damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Rammus ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Xin Zhao in order to pair well with Rammus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Xin Zhao and Rammus synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Rammus than with most other common builds. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average win rate of 54.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rammus with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Xin Zhao players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Xin Zhao and Rammus pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 54.8% win rate overall.
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